What You See Is What You Get and pronounced "wizzywig".
When creating a web page, you might write HTML by interspersing your text with formatting instructions (or when creating a wiki page, you might intersperse your text with wiki formatting) or you might work in a WYSIWYG editor that allows you to edit naturally. WYSIWYG editors take what you've typed and translate it into the underlying language.
WYSIWYG
What You See Is What You Get and pronounced "wizzywig".
When creating a web page, you might write HTML by interspersing your text with formatting instructions (or when creating a wiki page, you might intersperse your text with wiki formatting) or you might work in a WYSIWYG editor that allows you to edit naturally. WYSIWYG editors take what you've typed and translate it into the underlying language.